[Tri-motor]

Just picked up & read (looked at the pictures) the fifth & final issue of BB. It has a real nifty wrap-around cover depicting Hurricane Tankbusters doing what they do best. All-in-all a good 5 issue run. I hope more are planned for the future. Even a few Wellingtons made it into this issue......Thanks to Wmosner for alerting me (& supplying first three issues). I hope there is more to come!

[Canucklehead]

It was pretty good, wasn't it Tri? Not many WWII comics out right now, but I'd rather have quality over quantity, so this one fit the bill. Aircraft looked fairly close to what they were supposed to, story wasn't too cliched (just cliched enough), and lots of jerries getting what for!
I honestly had never heard of Battler Britton before this series started, but I like you, hope they do some more.

[smartd]

My mother used to buy me a couple of these every time we made the rather long trip to my Grandmother's house.
Was about an 8 hour trip through the Highlands of Scotland by coach train and steamer.
That was about 50 years ago. Wish I still had that collection.
Guess that's where my interest in RAF aircraft and exploits really started.

[Nimrod48]

If memory serves me right one of the presents I had on my 12th birthday was a Battler Britton compendium, I lost count of how many kids at school borrowed it happy days

[Shamrock]

Guys as we seem to be of a similar age ie, oldish; what about Braddock VC? Originally read in the Wizard it went pictorial in the Victor. Great artwork etc. He seemed to me to be the aviation counterpart to the other Victor star Alf Tupper; 'The Tough of the Track'.

[ZS-VAN]

Originally Posted by smartd

My mother used to buy me a couple of these every time we made the rather long trip to my Grandmother's house.
Was about an 8 hour trip through the Highlands of Scotland by coach train and steamer.
That was about 50 years ago. Wish I still had that collection.
Guess that's where my interest in RAF aircraft and exploits really started.

Well I can't say that I've been around for 50 years but comics are the way I think my interest in things aviation and military started. I remember Battler Briton very well actually.

[Nimrod48]

Originally Posted by Shamrock

Guys as we seem to be of a similar age ie, oldish; what about Braddock VC? Originally read in the Wizard it went pictorial in the Victor. Great artwork etc. He seemed to me to be the aviation counterpart to the other Victor star Alf Tupper; 'The Tough of the Track'.

It must have been the Victor where I came across Braddock my weekly thrills were taken from the Lion which had a character called Paddy Payne again great artwork considering the age group it was aimed at.

[david cotton]

Originally Posted by Nimrod48

It must have been the Victor where I came across Braddock my weekly thrills were taken from the Lion which had a character called Paddy Payne again great artwork considering the age group it was aimed at.

Was there not also a Braddock in Warlord comic ?

Warlord was my commic till I was 11, then I went to "Action", until it got banned. I then went to 2000AD, nothing like a bit of Judge Dredd you know.

[DCRanger]

these were my favorites. I think I had them all.

http://www.bookpalace.co.uk/PicLibs/AirAce/INDEX.HTM

[smartd]

How about Dan Dare and his team found in the Eagle?
An early introduction to space travel and adventure.